From: michael_davidson@pacbell.net (Michael Davidson)
Subject: [TUHS] Oldest Unix source code still in modern systems
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:15:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
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--- On Mon, 5/21/12, Armando Stettner <aps at ieee.org> wrote:
I would have suspected the oldest source code still existing in systems would be along the lines
/*
* you are not expected to understand this.
*/
That would certainly still be appropriate for the Linux context switch code which,
last time I looked, was a horrible mess of gcc "asm" constructs glued together
with C preprocessor macros.
The comment that I miss most, however, is:
/*
* printf should not be used for chit chat
*/
md
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 5:18 Warren Toomey
2012-05-21 15:00 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2012-05-21 15:43 ` Armando Stettner
2012-05-21 16:15 ` Michael Davidson [this message]
2012-05-22 7:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-05-21 7:45 arnold
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